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  • Internationalisation and Strategic Control

    An Industrial History

    Series series Routledge International Studies in Business History
    This book is a study of the emergence of international business. It immerses itself in the topic of how companies can control income-generating assets in foreign countries, the key element often used to define a multinational enterprise, and propounds the notion that control of crucial dispositions by foreign companies can be achieved by other means than direct foreign investment – cash flow and ... Read more

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  • Concussion, the Brain, and the Senses: A Guide to Rehabilitation Exercises. What may happen after a concussion and how to recover

    Take Control of Your Concussion RecoveryThere are two essential questions after a concussion:1) What may happen when a person gets a concussion?2) And, more importantly, what may a person do to recover from it?Concussion, the Brain, and the Senses: A Guide to Rehabilitation Exercises answers these questions with a practical, science-based approach that combines current knowl... ... Read more

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  • Industrial Heritage in Denmark

    Landscapes, Environments and Historical Archeology

    In presenting 25 industrial sites of national significance in the context of changing techno-economic paradigms, this book considers the development of Danish industrial landscapes and built-up environments in the period 1840-1970. Three case studies of ports, sugar mills, and cement plants are also presented. The book concludes with two chapters that discuss perceptions and strategies for the ... Read more

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  • Not Quite Shamans

    Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia

    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern Mongolia's remote Shishged Valley have understood and responded to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Economic Lives of Platforms

    Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets

    This interdisciplinary collection rethinks the political economy of the digital market by asking what came before platforms and suggesting what might come after them.By unpacking the concept of ‘platform economies’ into locally embedded variations of digital markets, the book identifies what is new about contemporary platforms and what is characteristic of wider historical, social and economic ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Ontological Turn

    An Anthropological Exposition

    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first anthropological exposition of this recent intellectual development. It traces the roots of the ... Read more

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  • Times of Security

    Ethnographies of Fear, Protest and the Future

    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    In the current world disorder, security is on everyone’s lips. But what is security from a cross-cultural perspective? How is it imagined and experienced by people on the ground? Crucially, what visions of the future are at stake in people’s potentially divergent concerns with security: what, and when, is the time of security? Exploring diverse notions and experiences of time involved in security ... Read more

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  • Principled Engagement

    Negotiating Human Rights in Repressive States

    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    What is the best way to promote human rights in grossly repressive states when neither sanctions nor trade and investment have much effect? This book examines the concept of Principled Engagement as an often overlooked alternative strategy for alleviating human rights violations and improving the framework of human rights protection. Beginning with an explanation of the concept and a comparison ... Read more

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  • Network Coding for Engineers

    Understand the fundamentals of network coding from an engineering perspective with this accessible guideNetwork Coding is a method of increasing network throughput and efficiency by encoding and decoding transmitted data packets instead of simply forwarding them. It was mainly a body of information theory until the rise of random linear networking coding (RLNC), a method ideally suited to wireless ... Read more

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  • Collaborative Damage

    An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

    Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention—sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia. Based on their fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and resource-extraction projects in Mozambique and Mongolia, Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen provide new empirical insights into ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Urban Hunters

    Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

    Series series Eurasia Past and Present
    An ethnography of the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic systemUrban Hunters is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos characterized ... Read more

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  • Diabetes Systems Biology

    Quantitative methods for understanding beta-cell dynamics and function

    Series series IOP ebooks
    Diabetes Systems Biology provides senior undergraduate students and junior scientists, interested in diabetes systems biology, with a tool to learn more about the mathematical models and methods used to understand macroscopically and microscopically beta-cell behaviour in health and disease. The book introduces readers to the quantitative methods used to examine beta-cell dynamics, islet biology ... Read more

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